<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Magic Ready to Even Season Series with Hawks After a quick trip to Miami on Sunday, the Magic return home where they'll contest four of their final six regular season games, including tonight's matchup with Joe Johnson and the Atlanta Hawks (7:00pm ET - Sun Sports). The Magic last played the Hawks at home on March 26 when they held off a fourth quarter comeback from Atlanta to win, 108-101. Orlando is 1-2 against Atlanta this season, having dropped both games played away from the TD Waterhouse Centre. The Magic are 22-9 all-time against the Hawks at home and have won three straight against them at the TD Waterhouse Centre. Atlanta's last victory in Orlando came in the 2003-04 season. Game Notes Orlando is 34-30 vs. Atlanta (23-9 at home, 11-21 at Atlanta) during regular season action, including 1-2 this season (see recaps below)...Orlando is 4-1 vs. the Hawks in the playoffs (1996 East Semis)...The Magic have won seven of the last 11 regular season meetings, and 17 of the last 25...Orlando has won 11 of the last 12 matchups at home and split the last six meetings on the road?Head Coach Brian Hill was an assistant with Atlanta for four seasons (1986-90)?Stacey Augmon spent the first five seasons of his career with the Hawks (1991-96)?Dwight Howard attended SW Atlanta Christian Academy?Assistant Coaches Randy Wittman and Morlon Wiley also spent time with the Hawks during their playing careers.</div> http://www.nba.com/magic/news/preview_041006_atlorl.html This is a HUGE game for us tonight and we can't take it easy. The Hawks have done a pretty good job as of late and if we start slacking off, it could ruin any minimal chance that we have to still secure the eighth seed in the playoffs. I am predicting a Magic win, 97-94. I think Jameer is going to have a big game and he will lead us to victory. Also, watch Zaza Pachulia tonight as he squares off against his former team. Earlier this season when Zaza played us, he hit the game winning tip-in with 2.4 seconds left in OT and grabbed a career high 18 rebounds. This should be a good game and I would hate for our playoff hopes to be crushed by one of the worst teams in the league. GO MAGIC!
We better win this game tonight. We've been beating teams like The Mavs, Pistons (I was at the game. ), and Heat... so there is no reason why we should fall to the Hawks. It's at home too so that makes it even better for us.
Dwight will have a triple double next year. He will get much better at passing out of the double team and have a 20, 15, 10 night next season
